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Labor Agency Fines Firms for IL Grain Bin Deaths
MOUNT CARROLL, Ill. (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Labor has fined two companies nearly $1.4 million for grain bin accidents last year that killed three Illinois workers, including two teenagers.

The labor department says the deaths could have been prevented if Haasbach LLC and Hillsdale Elevator Co. had followed occupational safety standards and child labor laws.

All three workers suffocated after becoming trapped in grain elevators.
Fourteen year old Wyatt Whitebread and 19 year old Alex Pacas died in July 2010 at a Haasbach grain elevator in Mount Carroll. A third man was seriously injured.

In August, 49 year old Raymond Nowland died after a Hillsdale Elevator accident in Geneseo.

The labor department says more people died after becoming trapped in grain elevators in 2010 than in any year since data collection began in 1978.

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